Persistent European Qualification Bug in Career Mode
Dear EA Sports Team,
Im writing because Im honestly very disappointed with the current state of Career Mode, especially when it comes to European competition qualification.
This has been a problem for years now. Smaller league teams simply dont seem to qualify for European competitions based on where they actually finish in their league. This was never a problem in older FIFA games. If you won your league with a smaller club, you qualified for the Champions League or Europa League just like you should. The system worked.
Now, however, it seems to completely ignore the final league positions in some smaller leagues. For example, I can win the Danish league with Brondby or the Norwegian league with Lillestrom, but the game still doesnt properly qualify these teams for European competitions. Instead, it keeps sending the same clubs, such as Malmo , Rosenborg and BodoGlimt, to Europe regardless of where they actually finish. This makes winning the league with these clubs feel almost pointless. What is the point of fighting for the top of the table if the game doesnt even recognize the result afterwards? It also completely breaks the immersion of Career Mode.
I waited an entire year hoping this would finally be fixed in EA FC 26, but it wasnt. Now EA FC 27 is here and the exact same problem still exists. What I find especially frustrating is that this doesnt seem like some huge or complicated feature. The qualification system worked correctly in FIFA games over a decade ago, and PC modders have also managed to fix similar issues themselves. It is difficult to understand why this has remained broken across multiple development cycles. For an €80 game, I dont think its unreasonable to expect basic league and European qualification rules to actually work. Career Mode players have been asking for improvements to the mode for years, and problems like this make it feel like the mode is simply being ignored.
I not asking for a vague PR response. I asking for the qualification logic to be fixed so that teams actually receive the European qualification they earn through their league position. I really hope you take this seriously, because I’m honestly tired of paying full price every year for a Career Mode that still has issues like this.
Sincerely,
Attila Kalmar - Playstation 5
